THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN.

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 12, 22 November 1919, Page 30

THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN.

(Selected Definitions.)

Define me, someone, if you can, The elusive term of gentleman. Says Vere de Vere, "A man is ho Of* pure-blooded ancestry." Says Newman Prig, "He's best defined As one who has a cultured mind." Says Midas, "Culture? Blood? Pooh! Dash! The true criterion is cash." Says Priest, "His is in thought, deed, word, A Christ-like person—Church preferred." Says BoolEs, "Whoever in he lets, He* never fails to pay his' bets." " 'Tis clear enough he's one," says Shirk, "Who for his living doesn't work." "A pal/ cries Bella Flapps, "who's prime At giving girls a top-hole tinie." "A real gent," says Ikey Chink, "Don't know the price of any think." Between these various views they voice, Come, pay your cash and take your choice. —R.M. Freeman in the Westminster "Gazette." © ®> ' $>• Gold—the pick-lock that never fails.—Massinger. * * « Inspiration and genius—one and the same.—Victor Hugo.